It’s never been easy to define a regional style of cooking for Southern California. Consider that at any given moment in the city, Los Angeles cuisine might take the form of Avish Naran and Miles Shorey‘s dosa onion rings with mango chutney at Pijja Palace, Katianna and John Hong‘s matzoh-filled mandu at Yangban Society, Junya Yamasaki‘s tonkatsu-chicken Kiev mashup in …
Red foods for Juneteenth, Lucas Kwan Peterson’s salad days, a Pump-Tini-powered “Vanderpump Rules” restaurant crawl, Netflix’s IRL food show and a taqueria that brought in a priest to get employees to confess their work sins. On Tuesday, we not only announced our Restaurant of the Year award for Holbox, we named Koreatown’s Park’s BBQ as the winner of this year’s …
This is part of the L.A. Times 2022 Gift Guide. — Bill Addison $42.99 for English breakfast tea set at Rare Tea Company $110 for Old Grove matcha at Song Tea & Ceramics $90 for lao xian weng at Tea Habitat Sunset Cultures sustainable fridge and pantry products As restaurants shut down because of the pandemic and farmers lost that …
There’s no shortage of tacos in Los Angeles. Tacos dorados estilo San Marcos from the Birrieria San Marcos truck Unsolicited advice offered while waiting in line at the taco truck is the only advice I’m interested in taking. “We added this new San Marcos-style this summer because it was so hot and we weren’t doing as well with the regular …